I think it is something that is needed. I have been luckey and only
have one PnP device a modem that also has jumpers. I have been using
the isapnp userspace program from Peter Fox to set it up and since it
is a modem there isn't any problem.
Things like sound cards pose more of a problem especially if there is
a cdrom hanging off the sound card. The sound card isn't too much of
a problem to comile as a module. It is that cdrom or harddrive or
whatever off the ide port on the card that is. I think the solution I
heard was to boot, use isapnp, use the same kind of trick labtop users
used to redetect ide devices on a pcmcia slot. Not what I would call
an elagant solution.
[I'll admit all I know of the kernel based PnP stuff is it exists, if
there is a document that answers my questions below, please give me a
reference to it]
If PnP is part of the kernel what says what cards get what resources?
If we get the values from the PnP device as to what ressource it needs
and what values it can accept what is going to keep it from using
resources of non PnP devices? With my modem I have set it to io port
address that aren't even listed in what it reports to be capable of
and it works great. How are we going to treat this?
P.s.
The next release of NT is supposed to have it and I had
someone try to tell me that NT was better than Unix because (the beta
of NT) can automatically setup the PnP network cards.
[let's not start a flame war on the kernel list, let this comment die here.]
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